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Originally Posted by DixieGal
I come from several long lines of shutterbugs and married into a family of them. Being one myself, all of the family albums eventually came to rest at my house. I had full albums dating back to the 1910's.
It took me a solid year, but I scanned them all. Evenings, weekends, whenever I had a few minutes. Over 9,000 photos. They were saved to CD's and remained safe in my strongbox during the tornado. YAY!
One of my best work friend's maiden name is Gay. (no jokes, please) My mother's father's mother's maiden name was Gay. We knew it must be related, because they were in the Selma, Ala, region back in the day. She was able to match one of my photos to the people by the same name in one of her mother's albums. So we turned out to be long-lost cousins or something. Astonishing how small the world really is!
On my dad's side a few generations back, we were Strange. It was originally Le Strange, but they Americanized it. All they could come up with was Strange.
So my blood is Gay and Strange!  |
Oh, I'm so glad the photo CDs remained safe! And Bellatrix is your long-lost cousin?
Seriously, Le Strange is a cool name. My Fallon greatx2 above married a fraulein, Clara Weingart. I love that last name. Fallon is a cool last name as well. Sadly, I have neither, my actual last name is just one of those very common, old-English trade surnames.
Anyway, I was jazzed to find
this photo. Unlike most of the photos I have, this one is identified. In fact, there is a lot writing on the back giving her exact name and age at the time of the photo. She was Amelie "Amy" Borde, my great-grandmother's first cousin. She died in the shipwreck La Bourgogne with their grandmother (my greatx3) and Amy's mother (my great-grandmother's aunt) only a couple years after that picture was taken and she was already 1/2 an orphan. Her father, Dr. Borde, died months after she was born. Anyway, that is why
that family tomb has weeping angels on a sinking ship on top of it.
This and
this are that great-grandmother who saved all these pictures and my grandfather.